Months after leaving the International Marxist Tendency, I discovered the work of Roger Scruton – or rather, rediscovered it. Scruton, who died in January 2020, had been an old hero of mine from when I had thought of myself as a conservative. After his death, I felt a tinge of sadness, suppressed because of my … Read more
All cults have the same, underlying nature. Militant in the 1970s and 80s was a similar organisation to what the IMT and CWI are now – a hyper-controlling, authoritarian cult led by a ‘guru’ or ‘gurus’ – in the case of the former, Ted Grant and Peter Taaffe, prior to the split which saw Taaffe … Read more
It is hard to escape the similarities between Trotskyism and similar cults. One cult I have been studying a lot about is the Church of Scientology. I recently began watching Leah Remini’s brilliant documentary about Scientology on Netflix. Remini, a former Scientologist, has set to work exposing the truth about her former cult, assisted by … Read more
One of the most enduring myths of Trotskyism is that there was no positive relationship between Leninism and Stalinism. Stalinism is seen as an ‘aberration’ from Leninism. Leninism is entirely innocent of all the crimes of Stalin. This comforting falsehood is used by Trotskyists to justify their continuing commitment to the revolutionary project in the … Read more
I am by no means the only person to desert the false religion of Trotskyism, nor will I be the last. Indeed, I am confident that my defection from the IMT cult placed a seed of doubt in the minds of at least a few members, and that this blog can only assist in this … Read more
Across the world, we have seen a wave of disgusting, anti-Semitic violence in response to what is going on in Israel – most of it from the far-left and its Islamist allies. In Britain alone, we have seen horrific anti-Semitic behaviour from pro-Palestine activists. In London, a convoy of pro-Palestine thugs drove through Jewish neighbourhoods … Read more
Lately, I’ve been thinking – real colonialism has never really been tried. Colonialism envisaged noble goals, laid out by great philanthropists like David Livingstone and Cecil Rhodes – the idea of bringing to a savage continent the three Cs of Commerce, Christianity and Civilisation. Of course, the ‘objective conditions’ were very difficult. Africa was a … Read more
In a move that is no surprise to anyone, Socialist Appeal has come out in defence of the racist Howard Beckett, the Deputy Secretary-General of Unite and Len McCluskey’s hand-picked successor. He was suspended after he tweeted calling for Priti Patel to be deported instead of refugees. If this was a prominent figure on the … Read more
The Socialist Equality Party, the American Trotskyist cult that was formerly the American branch of Gerry Healy’s organisation, has come out in defence of the anti-Semitic Bristol Professor David Miller. I cannot find an official statement on the issue by the IMT, SP or SWP, though I did find a statement from one of the … Read more